As we've been reporting, police say the need for heroin is the motive for a string of bank robberies.
So we took a deeper look at heroin usage in our area, what we found is very surprising.
Local drug counselors say they're not surprised people would be willing to rob banks, to buy heroin.
In fact, they call local heroin use an "epidemic".
Apparently, heroin use locally is increasing, especially among the young and affluent.
It's cheaper than cocaine, easier to get for underage kids than alcohol, and still highly addictive.
"Due to the price and the availability heroin has always been there, the price is cheap, the high is just as long, but the problem is, it really takes you out of yourself, that's what it's been, it's been very accessible." Said Desmond Kane of Gaudenzia Erie, Inc., a drug rehabilitation facility in Erie.
Police say that a lot of the heroin comes out of Detroit. And the scary part is that it's easily finding a way to children.
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